money
Rich people walk into Neiman Marcus and see a different store than poor people do, because rich people actually have the capacity to buy things in that store.
David Brooks • How to Know a Person: The Art of Seeing Others Deeply and Being Deeply Seen
(Nothing, the General muttered, is ever so expensive as what is offered for free.)
Viet Thanh Nguyen • The Sympathizer: A Novel (Pulitzer Prize for Fiction)
In my efforts to speak nearby, I also have to confront the distance between us, which is challenging because once I implicate myself, I can never implicate myself enough. The distance between us is class.
Cathy Park Hong • Minor Feelings: An Asian American Reckoning
(an exam that you never fail, unless you are afflicted by wealth)
Viet Thanh Nguyen • The Sympathizer: A Novel (Pulitzer Prize for Fiction)
No matter our income, my family could not cough up the thorn embedded in our chests.
Cathy Park Hong • Minor Feelings: An Asian American Reckoning
But I did find this—it’s not my own idea, but something I came across at the library, a line from a novel by Dostoevsky: “Money is coined freedom.” What do you think? Isn’t “coined freedom” a rather refreshing term? But seriously, I was fascinated to find this one line that drove right to the heart of this thing called money.
Notes & Highlights for The Courage to Be Disliked by Ichiro Kishimi
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